Bottle with herring and leaf designs
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Nanticoke
- Artist/Maker
- Oscar W. Wright, Nanticoke, 1889-1983
- Collector
- Dr. Frank G. Speck (Frank Gouldsmith Speck/F.G. Speck/FGS), Non-Indian, 1881-1950
- Previous owner
- Dr. Frank G. Speck (Frank Gouldsmith Speck/F.G. Speck/FGS), Non-Indian, 1881-1950
- Seller
- Dr. Frank G. Speck (Frank Gouldsmith Speck/F.G. Speck/FGS), Non-Indian, 1881-1950
- Collection History
- Collected between 1935 and 1940 by anthropologist Frank G. Speck (1881-1950); purchased by MAI from Frank Speck in 1949.
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- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement
- Date created
- 1930-1940
- Catalog Number
- 21/2681
- Barcode
- 212681.000
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Bottle with herring and leaf designs
- Media/Materials
- Gourd, wood, corn cob, paint
- Techniques
- Painted
- Dimensions
- 27 x 18 cm
- Place
- Indian River; Sussex County; Delaware; USA
- See related items
- Nanticoke
- Nanticoke
- Containers and Vessels
- On View
- NMAI, Washington DC: Return to a Native Place
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_226694
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws633d56f63-4a4c-4283-a97a-fc4ef4966e05
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